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Show 'd. a. r. to oppose j MISUSE OF FLAG WASHINGTON. April ". Enactment I of a federal law to prevent cenera! misuse ' and desecration of the American flap was advocated in a report today to the twenty-eighth congress of the I (auu'hteis of ' the American Revolution, in session at ; Continental hall here. j Mrs. ,7mes P. Hume, state recent of .Wisconsin, chairman of the flat; committee, commit-tee, reported that thp evil had increased verv greatly since the armistice. The most frequent misuse of the flac, Mrs. Hume declared, w as by thy magazines maga-zines and in cartoons and posters. In the, latter days of the war and particularly since the armistice nnd with the returning return-ing home of troops, the public, she said, had used the flas for costumes and decorations deco-rations In such a way as to arouse the resentment of patriotic organizations. A resolution indorsing the league of nations na-tions was presented. It went to the corn-; ' nilttce without comment on the floor . j |